Francis Amasa Walker

Francis Amasa Walker (2 July 1840-5 January 1897) was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and US Army officer. He infamously worked with the Indian Bureau, saying that the Native Americans needed to be kept on the reservations, broken of their culture of the chase, and forced to become "civilized".

Biography
Francis Amasa Walker was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1840, the son of politician Amasa Walker. He graduated from Amherst College in 1860, and he served in the US Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he became a Brigadier-General of volunteers, and he worked for the Bureau of Statistics and oversaw the 1870 census. In 1872, he became a professor of political economy at the Sheffield Scientific School, and he became a prominent econoist before also overseeing the 1880 census. While he was an anti-socialist, he supported bimetallism and obligations between the employer and the employed. He rebuked the wage-fund doctrine, and he became known as a prolific writer. He died in 1897.